The parade may have been part of the Federation Celebrations on 1st January 1901, or an early Empire Day which was instituted in 1905 and marked the birthday of the late Queen Victoria on 24th May.
Note the horse drawn galleon, the different headwear worn by adults and children and the black umbrellas used to protect the viewing public from the sun.
Queensland Museum holds over 1000 of Bert Roberts' plate glass negatives and prints from the era.
The original image is public domain. The plate glass negative is owned by Queensland Museum. Digitisation of this image is licensed under CC BY SA 3.0.
This image has been digitised by the Queensland Museum, and provided to the Wikimedia Commons as part of a cooperation project. The original image is in the public domain, but the Queensland Museum asserts copyright over the digitisation process, and has released the digitisation itself under CC-BY-SA-3.0. In the United States and other jurisdictions that do not implement the sweat of the brow doctrine, these images are in the public domain.
يقع هذا العمل في النِّطاق العامِّ في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكيَّة لأنَّه يستوفي ثلاثة متطلبات:
نُشِر للمرة الأولى خارج الولايات المتحدة، و لم يُنشر فيها في غضون 30 يوماً بعد ذلك.
نُشِر للمرة الأولى قبل 1 مارس 1989م دون إشعار حقوق تأليفٍ ونشر أو قبل عام 1964م دون تجديد حقوق النشر أو قبل قيام دولة المصدر بعمل علاقات حقوق تأليفٍ ونشرٍ مع الولايات المتحدة.
للمزيد مِن المعلومات انظر حقوق التَّأليف والنَّشر غير الأمريكيَّة. The photo was created before 1946, so the Australian copyright of 50 years since creation of the photo had already expired by the time the URAA entered in force in the U.S.
== Summary == {{Information |Description={{en|1= '''Roseberry Parade, Ipswich.''' The Bremer River is on the left, and St Mary’s Church and Convent are on the top right. Who is this lonely figure, and what does he represent? Queensland Museum holds ov